Word: sooner
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...intelligence experts in Washington believe that the Kremlin will sooner or later have to use force in Poland. The likelihood of intervention will remain high, they say, even if the recent Soviet military buildup turns out to be a bluff. With no sign of easing tensions, Western analysts revised their initially optimistic estimates of an earlier East bloc summit in Moscow. At that meeting Party Boss Stanislaw Kania may not have got a reprieve, as first thought. Instead, he was apparently read the riot act: either revive the party and get the country moving again-or else. "These talks were...
...Iranian officials seemed to share President Abolhassan Banisadr's eagerness to settle the hostage crisis and get on with their desperate struggle against Iraq. From embattled Dezful in Khuzistan province, Banisadr said last week that the sooner the Americans were released, the quicker Iran could obtain foreign resources -presumably including U.S. military spare parts. Said he: "During a war, time is a decisive element...
Even if the University won its shortterm battle for extra time to review the nominations, its real fight would just be beginning. To keep the properties off the register in the words of city historical society director Charles Sullivan, "sooner or later they [Harvard] will be placed in the position of arguing that parts of the campus are not historic...
...optimistic scenario; surely, they say, we will all be blown to pieces in some Armageddon choreographed from reinforced concrete bunkers in the Urals and the Rockies, and perhaps they are right. Others will snicker and say that life goes on; for a while it will, very much as normal. Sooner rather than later, though, the danger will become apparent, a danger so contrary it manifests itself in believable ways only when it becomes too powerful to be checked. The lights will not turn off all at once some morning, but the newspapers will hint at it, and soon there...
...Once we grant one request, we'll have to grant all of them," Associate Provost Gene Vincenti said, "and sooner or later we'll run out of space. That won't be fair...